New Report Explores Printing Beyond Colour

Many technologies and features with their roots in commercial printing have made, and continue to make, a substantial contribution to secure document production. However, these technologies have for the most part been concerned with producing visual colours, perceived by the unaided eye as conventional colour printing.

A new 60-page technology report – ‘Printing Beyond Colour: Commercial Innovations for Security Print’ – examines the latest generation inks and digital printing techniques that venture beyond visual colour into a domain filled with the potential to generate a whole new set of security features.

However, with this potential come threats. Given that the technologies and features used for commercial printing are often widely available, they are in danger of ending up in the hands of counterfeiters, thereby posing a real threat to secure documents, banknotes among them. This report therefore examines these threats, in order to provide a balanced and pragmatic technical review of current developments.